The Solar Echoes Comic Short #2,
“Unpleasant Weather,” is up on Youtube today! Please remember to
like (if you do like it ;) and maybe subscribe to my youtube channel.
Comments are always welcome, and the more sharing, the better! If you
saw #1 earlier this week, you might have noticed these are not named
characters—I'm just labeling each by their alien race name to help
familiarize people new to Solar Echoes with each alien. This is
probably the only week that will see two releases, but you should see
#3 up next week sometime, because I'm nearly finished with it. I've
been learning some new tricks with editing as I've been putting these
together. One trick is using frame overlays with the speech text so
that I don't have to re-design entire frames if the animation and
text needs to sync differently. Another trick I discovered is that I
can use the “pan and zoom” feature across animated frames.
Previously, I'd thought I could only us it for a single frame, but by
linking together animated frames, saving them as a separate file, and
then bringing THAT file into the editor, it's treated as a single
frame at that point and I can then apply the pan and zoom feature to
it to create a little more “camera” movement across animation.
As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.
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